Francis Cotes

Provenance

The Collection of Colonel H.H. Mulliner
His sale, Christie's London, 18 July 1924, nr. 10
Bought D. Colnaghi, London
From whom purchased by The Viscount Rothermere, London
Sale, Christie's London, 19 November 1965, nr. 156 (as by Sir Joshua Reynolds)
Bought J. Leger and Son, London
From whom purchased by the present owner
Sale Bonhams, London, 8 July 2009, nr. 93

Other works by Francis Cotes

Portrait of Robert Francis Burdett, 4th bt., three-quarter length in a red coat and standing before a green brocade curtain
1767

Portrait of Lady Fortescue, seated, half-length, in a white silk dress before a red curtain

Francis Vernon
1757

Admiral Harry Paulet, Sixth Duke of Bolton

Portrait of Elizabeth Burdett, half-length, with pearl earrings and necklace, wearing a gold décolleté dress embroidered with flowers, her waist tied with a sash beneath a turquoise gown trimmed with ermine